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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
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VERB
divide into four equal parts
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Exports could account for around 20% of the EV maker’s deliveries by then, up from about 10% expected in the third quarter, they said in a recent note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Last year, almost 148,000 deaths were reported to coroners in England and Wales, almost a quarter of which resulted in an inquest.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

U.S. payment volumes grew 10% in Visa’s latest quarter.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

In the second quarter of this year, “The Five” averaged 3.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen, capturing more than 64% of the cable news viewing audience in the 5 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

When they have rested for a quarter mile or so they go back to work.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

There is caution, a degree of wariness and even hostility in some quarters of the Royal Household.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

The Crocs brand has returned to growth in North America following several sluggish quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

A photo of her grandfather Ricardo Ovilla and her mother in front of his bracero living quarters appears in “Help Wanted/Leave Now.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

He also pointed to double-digit growth for Apple’s services in the last 12 quarters, even as its App Store has come under pressure.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

When I return to my room the pods are gone and replaced with a beehive of backlit hexagon cells, just like all the Collective’s quarters.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of Bath, Manueli turned out for Harlequins - a team who play in the famous quartered shirt but in south east Melbourne, rather than south west London.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2025

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2024

The mayor of the occupied city of Melitopol said several explosions shook the city Monday, damaging a building where Russian security forces have been quartered.

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2023

There was not a single lad about—the men were quartered half a mile away on the other side of the airfield and used a different shelter—those that weren’t scrambling into aircraft to fight back.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2025

Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.

From Science Daily Jan. 3, 2024

A team of volunteer cooks is preparing lunch for 200 senior citizens, cutting cornbread, tossing spinach salad, quartering oranges.

From Seattle Times Jul. 15, 2022

She picked a few stray peelings off of her apron and began quartering the potatoes.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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